Ms. Gundrum's Favorites
10 Minutes til Bedtime by Peggy Rathman
And If the Moon Could Talk by Kate Banks
Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon
Barnyard Song by Rhonda Gowler Greene
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Martin, Bill, Jr.
Bunny Cakes or Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia - illustrated by Genedy Spirin
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
Guess How Much I Love You? by Sam McBratney
Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
I Can Read With My Eyes Closed! by Dr. Seuss
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and sequels) by Laura Numeroff
Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Lunch Money and Other Poems About School by Carol Diggory Shields
Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet
No, David! by David Shannon
Not in the House, Newton! by Gilliland,
Olivia & Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falkoner
Ouch! by Natalie Babbitt
Pete's a Pizza by William Steig
Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Zelda and Ivy by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg
Primary Fiction K-2
Adventures from Bailey Street School Kids series by Debbie Dadey et al
The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla
Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant
My Father's Dragon (and sequels) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Intermediate Fiction 3-6
The
BFG by Roald Dahl
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
The Birthday Room by Kevin Henkes
Boggart by Susan Cooper
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The
Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper
The
Giver by Lois Lowry
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Faith and the Electric Dogs by Patrick Jennings
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes - by Louis Sachar
I am Regina by Sally M. Keehn
The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin
A Long Way from Chicago - by Richard Peck
LoveThat Dog by Sharon Creech
Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells
Minty : A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
My Side of the Mountain series by Jean Craighead George
Passager by Jan Yolen
Poppy (and sequels) by Avi
Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Shiloh
(trilogy) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sideways
Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Thanksgiving Picture Books
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende Devlin
Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
Christmas Picture Books
The 12 Days of Christmas by Sabuda, Robert
Cajun Night Before Christmas by Trosclair
The Christmas Alphabet by Robert Sabuda
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski
The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado
An Early American Christmas by Tomie De Paola
How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Jacob's Gift by Max Lucado
The Jolly Christmas Postman by the Ahlbergs
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
The Nutcracker by L.E. Hoffman
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Rocking Horse Christmas by Mary Pope Osborne
Santa Calls by William Joyce
Santa's Book of Names by David McPhail
Snowie Rolie by William Joyce
The Snowman (original version without words) by Raymond Briggs
Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto
Welcome Comfort by Patricia Polacco
A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect by Dick Schneider
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